AS TO OURSELVES 



a marvellous touch of its keys. But 

 Civilization is out with her greatest shows 

 on this occasion. The women there are 

 simply indescribable for what they display 

 in dress and ornament, and yet not an 

 item of either would be procurable but for 

 skilled handicraft. So the great hall itself 

 and everything in it, whether for use or 

 for embellishment, has been made by 

 skilled handicraft. 



But what is skilled handicraft? It is 

 that which produces work according to a 

 special training in each case of the sense 

 of touch. It is not the eye which can 

 make a microscope, nor the ear a trumpet. 

 Practically it is the insensate hand made 

 intelligent and guided by a human person- 

 ality which suffices for everything. With 

 a human personality, the sense of touch 

 can take the place of the seeing of the eye 

 and of the hearing of the ear, when these 

 can no longer do either. Helen Keller 

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